CallFire

CallFire is a rock-solid campaign tool that puts the power of a call center in the hands of your volunteers.

Assistant.to

This handy Gmail plugin eliminates the endless back-and-forth when scheduling meetings.

ASMP

Looking to hire a photographer in a new town or find some custom stock photography? ASMP is a great site to find a quality photographer, wherever and whenever you need one.

Asana

Asana is an easy-to-use campaign tool for teams to track work, plan ahead, and have fun along the way with gamification.

AddText

The title says it all: AddText allows you to quickly and easily add text to all of your photos.

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Employee Retention: My Employee is Leaving— Now What?

by Joe Fuld (He/Him)

Employee retention is hard. When an employee is leaving your business, as the proprietor, there is an instinct to feel rejected and think “I must have done something to make them leave."  When people leave my business, I have these thoughts as well. An employee moving on is never easy, but having good employees ultimately means opportunities will come knocking. With that said, here are a few tips I have used over the years when an employee is about to leave.

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Cost Per Acquisition Campaign Strategies

by Joe Fuld (He/Him)

For a long time we have worked with publishers like Change.org, Care2 and Daily Kos on cost per acquisition (CPA) campaigns. Often the ROI is good on those names for both fundraising and advocacy, but for some, a purely petition driven cost per acquisition strategy is not yielding the benefit it once did.

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Candidate Recruitment: How Does It Happen?

by Joe Fuld (He/Him)

Candidate recruitment is a lost art form. There is a lot of lore and legend about candidate recruitment we are here to give a more realistic view of candidate recruitment. Contrary to popular belief, someone from the DNC does not appear one day, out of the blue on you doorstep, and say you should be the next representative from Omaha.

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Die-Cut Mail Pieces

Two things off the bat to consider are costs and timing. First, die-cuts add costs, so it's not something to suggest on every campaign. Second is the time factor, die-cuts do add time to the production of the piece, so this needs to be worked into the schedule. If you have the budget and time for producing a die-cut piece, then the issues become production related.

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County Democratic Party and The GOOD Method

by The Campaign Workshop

Before we dive down into the dos and don’ts, of helping your County Democratic Party , let's take some time and talk about what a County Democratic Party should do.